2020 RIPPON Tinker's Field Pinot Noir Mature Vine, Lea & Sandeman

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2020 Tinker's Field Pinot Noir Mature Vine

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Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin New Zealand, South Island
Other Bio-dynamic
Classification Mature Vine
ABV 13.5%

Less sensational than Emma’s Block but just as fine. The cherries are a little more reserved and concentrated through the middle of the mouth. Some acidity, but especially the tannic framework is driving this wine. Leave Tinker’s Field for longer. The persistence puts this in a separate class. Drinking range: 2028 - 2036 Rating: 95 World of Fine Wine Magazine (Apr 2026)

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Less sensational than Emma’s Block but just as fine. The cherries are a little more reserved and concentrated through the middle of the mouth. Some acidity, but especially the tannic framework is driving this wine. Leave Tinker’s Field for longer. The persistence puts this in a separate class. Drinking range: 2028 - 2036 Rating: ***** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Sept 2024)

The 2020 Pinot Noir Tinker's Field is a very finely textured, sensitively nurtured Pinot Noir. The mature vines overlooking the shores of Lake Wanaka have produced a focused, precise and carefully woven red. Pure and broody, it is a restrained style. There's impeccable balance from the finely integrated tannins to the subtle cedar oak. Expect line, sinew and length on the finish. The 2020 is biodynamic, unfined and unfiltered. Drinking range: 2024 - 2035 Rating: 94 Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com (May 2024)

The 2020 Tinker's Field Mature Vine Pinot Noir is, as per usual, restrained on the nose but concentrated and driven in the mouth. This is a wine immune to hyperbole, and so eloquently of its place, that it is often a wine I am proud to show internationally. It never fails. The tannins are sleek but totally within the wine. The tannins are finely milled, ductile, gray in every respect and delicate but not brittle. The 2020 seems more open-armed than the 2019 before it (not better, not worse—just different), and it is making for pleasurable drinking here today. A beauty. The vines face north and are sheltered and protected behind Ruby Island. The vineyard is warm and on pure schist. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam. Drinking range: 2023 - 2040 Rating: 97 Erin Larkin, www.RobertParker.com (Dec 2023)

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Nick Mills returned home after several years away, working with the likes of Alain and Sophie Meunier at Domaine JJ Confuron, and Pascal Marchand (late of Domaine Comte Armand and then at Domaine de la Vougeraie). This experience with some of the leading players in Burgundy fired him up with enthusiasm, and we are already seeing the fruits of his experience in the changes in viticulture (to bio-dynamism) and the increased depth of mineral complexity in the wines.

Nick Mills on Biodynamics: 'Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family's principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings. It is the micro-life in our soils which, in their ability to metabolise minerals into a form that vines can assimilate, are the link in between plants and the earth. This simple biology is the essential framework in producing a wine which is true to its soil and site. With this understanding comes an absolute respect for the land and life therein and it is for this reason that Rippon is run biodynamically.

Decisions made in the vineyard and winery first consider the effect the outcome may have on the micro-flora of the soils, vines & wines. Rippon does not use herbicides, fungicides, pesticides or soluble nitrogenous fertilisers on the property. All the property's organic waste matter is recycled to make around 40 tonnes of fungal dominant compost every year. This is spread back over the land during the first descending moon after harvest as an inoculation of beneficial micro-flora for the whole property...and thus starts a diverse and vital web of life on which to live and produce.

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